Definition of wreath

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Wreath (n.) Something twisted, intertwined, or curled; as, a wreath of smoke; a wreath of flowers..

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Wreathy :: Wreathy (a.) Wreathed; twisted; curled; spiral; also, full of wreaths..
Wind :: Wind (v. t.) To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball..
Garland :: Garland (n.) A wreath of chaplet made of branches, flowers, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown; a coronal; a wreath..
Wreathen :: Wreathen (Archaic) of Wreath.
Intort :: Intort (v. t.) To twist in and out; to twine; to wreathe; to wind; to wring.
Intwine :: Intwine (v. t.) To twine or twist into, or together; to wreathe; as, a wreath of flowers intwined..
Willow :: Willow (n.) Any tree or shrub of the genus Salix, including many species, most of which are characterized often used as an emblem of sorrow, desolation, or desertion. A wreath of willow to show my forsaken plight. Sir W. Scott. Hence, a lover forsaken by, or having lost, the person beloved, is said to wear the willow..
Serpula :: Serpula (n.) Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae. They secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. The worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts..
Wreath :: Wreath (n.) A garland; a chaplet, esp. one given to a victor..
Green :: Green (n.) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; -- usually in the plural.
Volution :: Volution (n.) A spiral turn or wreath.
Laureled :: Laureled (a.) Crowned with laurel, or with a laurel wreath; laureate..
Crowned :: Crowned (p. p. & a.) Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected..
Laureate :: Laureate (v. i.) To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at the English universities..
Orle :: Orle (n.) The wreath, or chaplet, surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest..
Maypole :: Maypole (n.) A tall pole erected in an open place and wreathed with flowers, about which the rustic May-day sports were had..
Unwreathe :: Unwreathe (v. t.) To untwist, uncoil, or untwine, as anything wreathed..
Inwreathe :: Inwreathe (v. t.) To surround or encompass as with a wreath.
Wreathless :: Wreathless (a.) Destitute of a wreath.
Wreathen :: Wreathen (a.) Twisted; made into a wreath.
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